Greeks and barbarians

Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often as candidates for conquest and enslavement.

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Page 133... Egyptians and Phoenicians who civilized the native inhabitants of (what was
later called) Hellas. This model therefore sees ancient Greece as essentially a
Levantine culture, on the periphery of the Egyptian and Semitic spheres of
influence.

Page 141Thereafter the Hellenic tongue had spread even to the autochthonous
Pelasgians in Hellas, but not to the "barbarian" Pelasgians that Herodotus
maintains were still to be found elsewhere in the Mediterranean — in the
Hellespont, Thrace, ...

Page 168This derives from Hellen, and Hellas is in Thessaly; we shall say then that only
those [who live in that region] inhabit Hellas and "hellenize" in their language'].
19 Cf. R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship, vol. I. Oxford 1968, 41 note 2,
and ...